biography
pronunciation:
[powis]
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| lived:
| (1884–1939)
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| biography:
| Essayist and novelist, born in Dorchester, Dorset, S England, UK, the brother of John and Theodore Francis Powys. He studied at Cambridge, and worked as a journalist in New York City (1920–5), but suffered from recurrent tuberculosis which caused him to spend some years in Switzerland and Kenya. His works include Ebony and Ivory (1922), Apples be Ripe (1930), Confessions of Two Brothers (1916, with his brother John), and Skin for Skin (1925), an account of his time in Swiss sanatoria. |
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